Investigations on the quality of dispersion of nanofillers in poly(methyl methacrylate) composites by creep-recovery experiments

Journal of Rheology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 407-420

  Triebel, Christian ^a   Katsikis, Nikolaos ^a   Stará, Hana ^b   Münstedt, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILLER CONCENTRATION; MATRIX; MECHANICAL MEASUREMENTS; NANO CLAYS; NANO-FILLERS; NANO-SILICA; PARTICLE SURFACE; RHEOLOGICAL METHOD; STORAGE MODULI; SURFACE AREA; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON; WELL-DISPERSED;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CREEP; ESTERS; EXPERIMENTS; FILLERS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOCOMPOSITES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

DISPERSIONS;

EID: 77949690033     PISSN: 01486055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1122/1.3314291     Document Type: Article

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